Plastics Industry Unveils New Environmental Campaign in the U.K.

1:00 AM MDT | July 7, 2009 | Alex Scott

The plastics industry has begun The Plastics Challenge 2020, a campaign to double the level of plastics recycling in the U.K. by 2020, in a bid to prevent plastics from ending up in landfill. Organizations running the Plastics 2020 Challenge are industry groups the British Plastics Federation (London), PlasticsEurope (Brussels), and the Packaging & Films Association (Nottingham, U.K.). The Plastics 2020 Challenge “is the first time plastics manufacturers and processors themselves have called for a widespread and open debate and set...